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2018-01-23
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: This exploratory research focuses on the connection between board membership and art philanthropy in the performing arts (i.e. theatre, symphony, ballet, opera). Art patronage, from the Renaissance, through nation-state promotions of culture is recognized as having...
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Building the Container of the Room: Ethics, Power, Enacted Values, and Production Dramaturgy
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This written document supports and references Charles (Charlie) Peters’ thesis work, a theatre production of Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings presented as part of the 2021 Studio Theatre season on which the author worked as production dramaturg. Peters uses this production as a...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: In August 2018, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. McDonald was unceremoniously hoisted from Victoria, BC's city hall steps, wrapped in foam and trucked away to a storage facility. City council was responding to concerns from Indigenous community members...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: This IDG project probes how contemporary Italian theatre responds to the Mediterranean migration crisis and its political exploitation, challenges the simplistic, populist binary of us/other, and enables migrants to enter the public sphere as worthy interlocutors and...
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2019-06-17
CFI-JELF awarded 2020: The proposed infrastructure request will support work in the use of projected media in live performance. This specific request is to transform the theatre from a primarily text-based aural experience to one that is based in visual language. Our proposal includes five...
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2018-12-14
SSHRC Awarded PEG 2019: This Partnership Engage grant proposes a gathering where academics and artists come together to heighten dialogue and practice around experiential learning and embodied performance practice. The overall goal is an increased awareness and knowledge mobilization of dance...